{"id":500,"date":"2008-08-15T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=500"},"modified":"2008-08-15T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T12:15:37","slug":"moral-authority-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Moral Authority II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2008\/08\/how_quickly_we_forget_2.php\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Watch in amazement as John McCain condemns Russia for having the temerity to cross an international boundary &#8212; &#8220;in the 21st century, nations don&#8217;t invade other nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3h_ZbW2REcI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all recall, of course, John McCain&#8217;s outrage when the United States violated this rule back in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=496\" target=\"_blank\">James Taranto&#8217;s prediction<\/a> has quickly come true.&#160; Which got me wondering; how many dozen UN resolutions does it take before an invasion is OK by international standards, and how many resolutions was Russia enforcing when it invaded the Republic of Georgia?<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Mathew Yglesias,John McCain,Russia,James Taranto,Best of the Web Today,United Nations,Republic of Georgia[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias: Watch in amazement as John McCain condemns Russia for having the temerity to cross an international boundary &#8212; &#8220;in the 21st century, nations don&#8217;t invade other nations.&#8221; We all recall, of course, John McCain&#8217;s outrage when the United States violated this rule back in 2003. 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